Since I can't think of suitable flippancy...

I'll let this do the job instead



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Oh happy days...

After match after match of shitty performances, sin-bins and general fuck-ups; this little picture brings the sunshine back


Nothing like a good bit of Kermit bashing to warm the cockles of your heart

How???

Since it's Friday night and much single malt has been imbibed - I'll ask what everyone is thinking

How come this kermit.....


Manages to sweet-talk this lady.... Bearing in mind they are both french and therefore the "kermit bullshit" factor cancels out...


Well???

Round 1 to the strikers

So it's over for now - a fudge has duly been made and some jobs will be given to UK workers.

Mandelsnake has been made to look a cock after saying it would be a "huge mistake" to engage in protectionism, which is exactly what happened after guarantees were given that over 50% of the workforce would be British.

The unions tried to put a glos on the whole thing claiming

people had had enough of employers using "unjust laws" to "pitch one European worker against fellow European workers" in the pursuit of profit

So a bit of good old British xenophobia never came into it then?? Of Course not. Salt of the earth those lads.

But where's going to be next?

My money's on train drivers

And this is why we shouldn't trust electronic enforcement

Because some corrupt bastard will abuse it.

Thousands of drivers in Italy are expected to seek compensation after it was revealed that a system to catch them jumping red lights was rigged.

Yep - you read it right - but here's the killer

More than 100 people, including police officers, are being investigated as part of the fraud.

And to cap it all off...

More than 100 other people including 63 police commanders are also being investigated as part of the scam

Power corrupts??? No fucking shit Sherlock.

End of the day, if you build a computer system to photograph driver based on them cutting a red light by 3 seconds, or by 5 seconds, it hangs on what a programmer says it should do (and this can always be changed for profit or fun) - so why are we still persisting with the lie that a secure ID database will be uncorruptable?

The peasants are revolting

So it begins... And earlier than I expected as well (I had my money on mid June when the proles went to convert their holiday money into euros for the fortnight in Benidorm and realised how fucked our currency is against the euro).

It appears that the peasants have reverted to solidarity strikes and random walkouts in heavy industry up and down the country (though correct me if I'm wrong - but I though secondary action was illegal? I'd laugh my fucking tits off if the bastards all got the sack) as they're upset that Johnny foreigner is getting the work (though they probably only have themselves to blame when the Wops are a better employment prospect that the average UK numpty)

So we now have the hilarious situation of the unions, who lets not forget are normally rabidly pro-EU, having to back their members in a dispute where they will be forced to criticise the EU for it's free trade. Oh the delicious joy of it all, compounded by the fact that Cyclops will have to bow to his union paymasters and fudge some solution (inevitably pissing off the EU who will doubtless threaten action) to keep the unions happy.
So how they can reconcile this:

Pat McFadden, minister for employment relations, said Mr Brown had not meant UK firms would be encouraged to flout European laws on free mobility of labour when he promised "British jobs for British workers"

With this: -

Some of these companies ... are saying they will exclusively debar UK workers, they will not consider UK workers under any circumstances - Derek Simpson, Unite general secretary

Will be an even bigger joy. I believe the phrase "he who pays the piper call the tune" will now apply and nulabour will be fucked either way. Happy days. Expect the shit to hit the fan on Monday when the unions all get together and plan their next move, while the average heavy industry worker goes and has a chat to his local BNP rep.

A Euro sceptic in charge of the EU

The czech's are now holding the EU presidency, and their president is a bit of a forthright fella (the translation is a babelfish one - hence some of the odd wording) who seems very suspicious of the EU as a whole

The Kermit paper Le Monde approached him for an off the cuff interview and got a fantastic rebuff:-

Klaus: “An interview with Le Monde? No!.

La Monde: “??”

Klaus: “No, do not insist! You are of the left, and fanatically pro-european!

Class - this promises to be an interesting 6 months in EU-land and I'll lay money on there being a bunch of fucked off euro-nuts at the end of it

Up yours Barroso!

The governments propaganda unit (AKA the BBC) seem to have gone a little off message with the happy news that 71% of Britons still think the Euro is a waste of space.

So it appears that despite the dear leaders best efforts to screw the pound totally so they're now of equal value, and that chubby fool Jose Manuel Barroso proclaiming that we were "closer than ever before", we still don't want Brussels running our financial affairs any more than Brown & Co have signed away already.

Despite millions spent on propoganda, the people of this septic isle still totally reject the Euro, and doubtless much of the other crap that comes with the EU project - which explains why they'll do anything to give us that referendum.

That's cheered me up no end considering what a dull, cold day it it out there generally. All I need to hear is that Ed Balls has gone under a bus and I'll retire to bed a happy man today